[OpenIndiana-discuss] about tuntap

[Jonathan Adams]

I know it's not totally relevant, but do you know how significant the
difference is between our iptun/vnic/bridges and tun/tap

would it ever be possible to configure OpenVPN to work with a pure
Illumos/Solaris 11 interface?

We use static IP tun interfaces here between our known sites, and
OpenVPN to connect laptops for users at their home addresses (and over
wifi dongles that might change address) ... Windows (yuk!), Linux, and
1 Solaris/Illumos laptop (fool that I am) ... the easiest by far is
the Linux (Ubuntu) Laptops which have OpenVPN in their
network-manager.

Jon

On 22 February 2013 12:35, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:
> On 2013-02-22 13:21, Jonathan Adams wrote:
>>
>> sorry to but in, but how does this differ from the tuntap made by
>> "Maxim Krasnyansky" that's in the SFE?
>
>
> (Moderately informed FUD follows)
>
> I believe, that the original "tuntap by Maxim Krasnyansky" was made
> primarily for BSD/Linux, and needed some developer love to work under
> Solaris.
>
> http://vtun.sourceforge.net/tun/faq.html
> http://vtun.info
>
> One project of "Solarisizing" the tuntap was Kazuyoshi's work:
> http://www.whiteboard.ne.jp/~admin2/tuntap/
>
> He also made (and ultimately RTI'd) some tweaks for OpenVPN.
>
> Last summer he also "Improved throughput perfomance by increasing
> q_hiwat of read side stream head queue" which boosted my TCP IO's
> (like CIFS over OpenVPN) by about 5-7 times, and this is the build
> version supposedly present in the repository.
>
> Now, I don't really know now which code is in which repo, but they
> both come from same roots; it may also be possible that the original
> project borrowed some improvements from this branch. I haven't used
> "Maxim's tuntap" with Solaris at all, so can't comment on it more.
>
> HTH,
> //Jim
>
>
>
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